english

4Apr

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Journalism, VIDEO REELS

Everyday African American Vernacular English Is A Dialect Born From Conflict And Creativity

Dr. Walter Edwards is a professor of linguistics at Wayne State University, Michigan, where he teaches courses on African American Vernacular English, sociolinguistics and American dialects. Until Aug. 31, 2022, he was also the director of the Humanities Center at Wayne State. Below are highlights from interviews with The Conversation U.S. and another online interview. Answers have been edited for brevity and clarity. Exactly what is African American Vernacular English? A linguist explains. What brought you to your field of research? I grew up in the poorest section of the poorest section of Georgetown, Guyana, the nation’s capital. I grew up speaking what is called conservative Guyanese creole, a stigmatized language variety that was and is considered broken English by most Guyanese and...

One Of The Most Revered Works In English Literature ‘Great Expectations’

4Jul

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BOOKS

One Of The Most Revered Works In English Literature ‘Great Expectations’

Great Expectations traces the coming-of-age of a young orphan, Pip, from a boy of shallow aspirations into a man of maturity. From the chilling opening confrontation with an escaped convict to the grand but eerily disheveled estate of bitter old Miss Havisham, all is not what it seems in Dickens’ dark tale of false illusions and thwarted desire. Raised by a humble blacksmith, Pip is recruited by the wealthy Miss Havisham to be a companion to her ward, the cold but beautiful Estella. There, Pip learns to despise his rough origins as Estella torments him about his low prospects. When Pip is informed that an unknown benefactor expects to make him his heir, he sets off to London to realize his “great expectations.” But true gentleman stature, he will find, is a matter of character, not fort...

English Actress And Model: The Sensual Suki Waterhouse

9Jun

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CELEBRITY MAIN NEWS, TOP FOUR

English Actress And Model: The Sensual Suki Waterhouse

Best know for her work in Love, Rosie (2014), The Bad Batch (2016), and Insurgent (2015). Suki was born in Hammersmith, London, England on January 5, 1992. This British babe made her onscreen debut in the TV series Material Girl in 2010. Suki gets stripped down to her underwear for her role in The Bad Batch and we get a look at Suki’s amazing ass in Love, Rosie. However, our favorite place to see Suki with her clothes off is in the short film Rachael (2012). This British film is a short snapshot into the everyday life of an English family in the 1940s. Want Free Access to Suki Waterhouse Nude Pics & Clips? Click Here We see the mother and father at breakfast while the older sister tries to get ready for work. Although the film is only three minutes long, they don’t waste any time with...

‘It don’t be like that now’ — the English history of African American English

14Feb

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LIFESTYLE

‘It don’t be like that now’ — the English history of African American English

After students at a California high school were recently told to “translate” Black English phrases into standard English, a community member at a school board hearing said: “The last thing they need — our children — is to be forced to attend class and to be mocked and bullied by students because of a lesson plan used to highlight African American Vernacular English.” Few dialects of English have garnered so much negative attention. From the classroom to the courtroom, the place of African American Vernacular English is hotly debated. This is because people associate it with linguistic features now denounced as grammatically incorrect, like “double negatives” or verbs that don’t agree with their subjects. For example: You might as well not tell them, ‘cause you ain’t getting no thanks fo...